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No. 151 LETTER FROM A. NELSON TO GEORGE B. ERATH Waco, Texas January 4th 1858 I have just received intelligence from Bosque (I left home four days ago) that the Indians have made another desent and killed one man certainly & it is thought two others carried off a little boy & that a Negro who they left for dead but it is said he will recover-this occurred it is said within six or seven miles of Meridian. They also carried off some 30 head of Horses. Some of the citizens have gone in pursuit but I fear from the want of ex- perience they will ride their Horses down the first day or two & have to abandon the pursuit. I shall start home in the morning & if I can raise horses & men will make an effort tll find some of the impudent mauraders. But our own people are in a bad condi- tion to leave home their horses poor & their arms very deficient. Cant you & Evans get the state to order out fifty men from Bos- que for the protection of that section to act in conjunction with Carmacks 20 men in Erath & scour the country between the Leon and Bosque-that seems to be the route which they all come in now & 20 men cannot guard it as is evident from this affair to people immediately concerned as you know are too poor to make a campaign on their own account. It is true that at this season of the year & the resourses of the Country but little more than de- fensive operations can be considered practicable but if I had fifty men I would make a determined effort to chastise the scoundrels & I shall do it at all hazzards if I can get the men, if authorised by the state I could get them from this & Mill Counties in three days. Let me hear from immediately. From the distance given from Meridian it must have been my course on De. Lobivers Negro that was that. The man who brought the news was a stranger & could not remember names except the man who was found killed & whose little son they car- ried off-that he gave us Walker & I greatly fear it is our old friend & my neighbor Dixon Walker if so retribution & that ten- fold shall be had if I live. Hon. Geo. B. Erath Dear Sir
In haste yours Truly A. NELSON
A. Nelson
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